What is it about the bicycle that seduces us? Bicycles are everywhere — not just speeding along city streets and parked on sidewalks, but also offered up as accessories to a hip urban lifestyle in retail displays, advertising, editorial layouts and TV commercials. While pedaling [...][Continue Reading...]

On a stop into Anthropologie on Fifth Avenue, I spotted these rustic iron alphabet hooks. A series of them, arranged as shown above, would lend a decorative and practical touch to the entry of a bike-lover’s apartment for helmet storage. Hanging helmets and wraps on [...][Continue Reading...]

We’ve long been fans of New York City-based artist Danielle Baskin’s hand-painted, stylish bicycle helmets. Her whimsical, one-of-a-kind designs, painted with acrylics and ink and finished with polyurethane to make them last, take up to 30 hours to produce and retail for $150 to $300. [...][Continue Reading...]

As the days grow shorter, it’s important to remember lights for a safe ride home. That’s where easy-on, easy-off Bookman bike lights come in. With a distinctive minimalist design that resembles a Lego block, the bright, single-LED lights attach to a handle bar or seat [...][Continue Reading...]

How sweet are the bicycle pillows that we spotted over the weekend at the home furnishings website Serena & Lily’s airy new shop on Route 27 in East Hampton? The pillows, in kelly green (top) or bright strawberry (below), are hand-blocked, then hand-painted and finished [...][Continue Reading...]

These days, everybody is getting in on the cycling boom. Recent years have seen introduction of bicycles with names from the luxury automobile industry and from the world of fashion. And, although bicycles often appear within the context of architecture and interior design, from hipster [...][Continue Reading...]

A few months ago, at a craft fair in SoHo, I came across the Twig booth with its eye-catching display of terrariums imaginatively and dexterously created in Brooklyn by Michelle Inciarrano and Katy Maslow. Thoughtfully selected vessels, some new, some vintage, are packed with delicate [...][Continue Reading...]